Method of making moccasin sock-type slippers



Feb. 13,

1!. R. ARNOLD METHOD OF MAKING MOCCASIN SUCK-TYPE SLIPPERS Filed May 24,1949 INVENTOR. mg; I Mflw Zq/ Patented Feb. 13, 1951 METHOD OF MAKINGMOGCASIN SUCK-TYPE SLIPPERS Israel I. Arnold, Newtonville, Mass.

Application May 24, 1949, Serial No. 95,104

1 Claim. 1

The present invention relates to foot wear, and more particularly toslippers of the moccasin type, in which a sock and a soft sole arecombined in one.

In the present invention, a soft sole of the normal slipper size hasattached to it, a border strip which is turned upward from the sole andto which is attached the edge of a sock.

One of the chief features of the present invention is the method bywhich the sock is attached to the assembled sole and turned strip. Theborder strip is sewed to the sole along the peripheral edge with theedge of the sole and that of the strip in face to face contact and theseam running through both edges. The sock is then stitched to the otheredge of the border strip by through stitching along the sole of the sockby an over-cast stitch such as may be made by an over-cast stitchingmachine.

It has been found that by this method of manufacture, it is notnecessary to perforate the strip in advance and further the stitchingmay be uniform around the whole border strip even though the strip maybe formed of a separate heel and vamp section as is sometimes preferablein construction.

The present invention will be more fully described in the specificationset forth below .when taken in connection with the drawings illustratingan embodiment of the same, in which- Figure 1 shows a perspective viewof the slipper.

Figure 2 shows a detail of the same, and

Figure 3 shows a section taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

In the drawings, the sock slipper comprises a sole 1 which may be ofsome soft leather such as kid or lamb with a soft wool inside such as ashearling sole. The sole 1 is cut out or stamped out to the size desiredand to it along its peripheral edge is attached a flat strip 2 which maybe of the order of to 2" in width and extending all around the peripheryof the sole. The strip 2 may be composed of two pieces 3 and 4, stitchedtogether along the edges 5 and 6. It is useful to make the strip of twoor more pieces since otherwise it would be very long and therefore wouldhave to be cut out of a very long piece of material. The border strip 2is preferably of soft leather and is stitched to the sole providingsufficient flexibility so that it may be turned upwards actually formingthe lower part of the upper or vamp of the slipper. The strip 2 and solel are attached together in a continuous edge to edge relationship bystitching l which should be through stitching between the stri and thesole, with the stitching showing only on the inner surface of theslipper which of course is covered by the sock which will presently bedescribed.

The stitching 1 passes through the edge both of the strip 2 and the edgeof the sole and may be ordinary stitching or of an over-cast type towhile stitching.

bind the edge of the strip flat with the sole piece. The sock 8 of thedesired size is then assembled in alignment with the edge of the sole ofthe sock in aligned contact with the edge strip 2. This is shown inFigure 1, where the edge 9 of the sole of the sock and the edge of thestrip 2 are together all around the free edge of the strip 2, that isthe edge which is not attached, in Figure 2. The over-cast stitching I0is used to attach the sole of the sock to the edge or rim of the strip2. This over-cast stitching as indicated in Figure 3, passes through twothicknesses II and I2 of the sole edge of the sock and through the strip2 in stitching which goes through the strip as indicated at i 3 andloops over .the top rim of the strip as indicated at 14.

By using an over-cast stitch in this way, it is not necessary toperforate the strip 2 so that the over-cast stitch will show at aregular interval in a uniform pattern without regard to the junctionsuch as 5 and 6 where the strips are sewed together. An added advantageof the stitching in this manner is that the strip is sewed tightly andno large holes are necessary other than those made by the needle inpulling through the stitching thread. The stitching It may be yarn ofdesired thickness and may also provide contrasting colors for anattractive effect in the manufacture of the article.

Having now described my invention, I claim:

A method of making a slipper of a moccasin type with a sock combined,which comprises first uniting a sole with an unperforated border stripin an edge hem all around the sole forming an upwardly projecting flangeand then stitching a sock to the other edge of the strip around the topof the flange by holding the margin of the upper of the sock adjacentthe periphery of its sole in face to face alignment with the upper faceedge of the strip and stitching the sock and strip together with anover-cast stitch passing twice through the sock and over the edge of thestrip whereby the unperforated border strip is pierced ISRAEL 1. ARNOLD.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in theGreatBritain July 23, 1936

